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Beaufort County Community College nursing students Madison Hall and Gabriella Jordon received the State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) Foundation People Helping People Scholarship, a $5,000 award distributed across two years.
Published: Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 @ 3:21 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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What if the qualifications that secure college and university accreditation instead secured accreditation for individual scholars?
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 1:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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College students will have an exciting opportunity this fall, as several educational institutions have announced they will offer credit in gender studies courses to any students who are able to sit through the entirety of the new Barbie movie.
Published: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 12:49 am
By: Babylon Bee
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North Carolina is making it easier for aspiring and current early childhood teachers to get classroom experience and college credit to meet the state’s growing child care needs.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 5:49 pm
By: ENC NOW
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The Society for Simulation in Healthcare granted provisional accreditation to the East Carolina University College of Nursing's simulation program, making ECU the only public university in the state with either a provisionally- or fully-accredited simulation program
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2019 @ 9:50 am
By: ECU News Services
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A new school year is weeks away, leaving ambitious high schoolers to anticipate schedules packed with Advanced Placement classes
Published: Tuesday, August 21st, 2018 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The College's Department of Construction Management was recently reaccredited for another six years by the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE)
Published: Thursday, June 15th, 2017 @ 10:56 am
By: ECU News Services
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Accreditation is like the pancreas: not very interesting, but a source of serious problems if it malfunctions
Published: Friday, April 8th, 2016 @ 7:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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America's national obsession with raising our "educational attainment" level leads politicians and bureaucrats to focus on the silliest of things. Lately, that has been college accreditation.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, 15 percent of community college students who transfer lose nearly all of their credits in the process, costing them precious time and money. Another third lose a significant proportion of their credits...
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 12:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Please see the following flyer (below) for details about this workshop. If this learning opportunity could be helpful to others in your address book, please forward.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 6:09 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Seven students at Beaufort County Community College have been awarded a scholarship established by the State Employees' Credit Union Foundation to fund studies by those in short-term training programs.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 12:32 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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As students head back to high school this fall, they and their parents will quickly discover that much of traditional American history taught in Advanced Placement (AP) courses for college credit is being rewritten with a distinctive left-leaning bias.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 2:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Active duty members, veterans and military spouses can have selected military training and past experience converted into college credit and/or professional licenses in North Carolina under legislation signed into law today by Governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, July 13th, 2014 @ 10:43 am
By: Christopher Maye
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People keep talking about the high burden of college debt, which now surpasses credit card debt. And the federal government is doing something to help.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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While students, faculty and staff here at BCCC were dealing, once again, with snow last week, I was honored to be part of a Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation team that visited the Jakarta campus of Lone Star Community College.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2014 @ 6:02 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the State Board of Community Colleges and University of North Carolina Board of Governors today signed a revised Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (CAA) between the two public higher education systems.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 6:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Traditionally, college students, whether at the community college level or at four-year universities, have been expected to earn a prescribed number of credit hours by attending 16-week courses over multiple semesters. Students' post-graduation "competency" is indicated by the fact that they...
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 10:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students in one College Study Skills class recently heard a discussion of the importance of managing their money, wise use of credit cards and how a poor credit rating can affect their ability to get a good job once they graduate.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2013 @ 11:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons has granted Vidant Medical Center a three-year accreditation with commendations as an Academic Comprehensive Cancer Program.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Students in short-term training programs at Beaufort County Community College may apply for scholarships to help defray the cost of those programs thanks to a new program funded by the State Employees' Credit Union Foundation.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 3:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory signed 39 bills today including three that aligned with the governor's focus on improving our state's education and government efficiency.
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 6:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The number of students enrolled at Beaufort County Community College for the Summer Term has set a record with an increase in the number of online courses credited for most of that jump, college officials announced this week.
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2013 @ 2:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Katie G. Paul Allied Health and Nursing Building on the campus of Beaufort County Community College has been recognized for its energy-saving design and construction, college and county leaders recently announced.
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 @ 12:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If past credit issues are preventing you from moving forward toward your financial goals, this workshop is a must. In today's economy, your FICO score is used for a lot more than just granting credit, so achieving and maintaining Superior credit is more important than ever.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2013 @ 9:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2007, Michigan state government made a policy shift that may have ramifications around the country, including in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, September 15th, 2012 @ 12:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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But by way of commentary, if we read the list correctly the Legislature would cut the Learn and Earn program that allows student to enroll in community college courses and get high school credits, including the Early College programs.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2011 @ 9:16 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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